“O Lord, please send someone else to do it.”
Exodus 4:13
Up until this point Moses has asked questions – who, what, what if – and he has made excuses– I’m not a good speaker...but now he finally just comes out with it:
O Lord, please send someone else to do it.
Saying please does not make Moses any less of a shirker! And referring to God as LORD–while refusing to bow to His command–is a bit ironic. He is either Lord of everything in our lives or He is Lord of nothing.
Do you and I place limitations on God? Do we hold out on Him? Make excuses…hold back…look for every excuse possible to say no…until we finally just ask Him– albeit nicely – to send someone else?
Can I just please sit here on the bench coach? Would you please send someone else to bat?
And you know…sometimes He will do that. Sometimes the most sobering and most sad consequence is for God to give us what we ask for — to send someone else up to bat to hit our home run.
Perhaps you can look back and see some missed opportunities. Perhaps some scenes flash into your mind of you swinging your legs in the shady dugout…when you could have been swinging the bat and rounding the bases!
The woman of God accepts God’s assignments.
Is God calling you to bat? Would you resolve to get up and RUN to the batter’s box? Are you ready to get up in confident faith – knowing you can’t fail when He is your coach…your umpire….and even owns the team?
Sometimes God lets us wallow in our own choices – my West Virginia mama used to say, You made your bed – now you can just lie in it!
But sometimes our compassionate God will press in with His best for us and for others. That’s what He did with Moses and the Israelites. God’s anger with Moses was restrained. He accommodated Moses by sending his brother Aaron to help. And Moses (unwilling initially or not) accepted God’s assignment to GO.
Where is He sending you? If God is calling, it’s time to get up and GO.
Exodus Audio Teaching Lectures:
Lesson 1: http://fbcsiloam.podbean.com/e/ladies-bible-study-exodus-1-and-2-laura-macfarlan-9-11-14/
Lesson 2: http://fbcsiloam.podbean.com/e/ladies-bible-study-exodus-lesson-2-laura-macfarlan-9-18-14/
Lesson 3: http://fbcsiloam.podbean.com/e/ladies-bible-study-exodus-lesson-3-laura-macfarlan-9-25-14/
